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Penélope Rodríguez Zamora
Assistant Professor
Affiliation: Complex Systems

Building : Marcos Moshinsky, 234
Phone: 56225000 ext 2513

Research Lines

  • Nanoscale Chirality

Knowledge Fields

  • Nanosciences and Condensed Matter
  • Applied Physics and Interdisciplinary Topics

Knowledge Areas

  • Physical and chemical properties of clusters and nanoparticles
  • Complex systems and biological physics

Grants/Projects

  • Física Molecular Quiral en Interfaces con Autoensambles Supramoleculares, 2024-2026, Dirección General de Asuntos del Personal Académico,
  • Transporte Electrónico Enantioselectivo en Películas Poliméricas Quirales, 2024-2025, Instituto de Física,

Latest Articles

  • López-Olivos, JC, Álvarez-García, A, Garza Ramos, G, Huerta, L, Molina, P, Heredia-Barbero, A, Garzón, IL, & Rodríguez-Zamora, P, Metal-ligand interface effect in the chirality transfer from L- and D-glutathione to gold, silver and copper nanoparticles, Nanoscale Advances, April 2025; 7(9), 2648-2662, DOI: 10.1039/d5na00208g, Link
  • J.C. Luque-Ceballos, P. Rodríguez-Zamora, J.C. López-Olivos, I.L. Garzón, Revisiting the scavenging activity of glutathione: Free radicals diversity and reaction mechanisms, Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, June 2023,
  • P. Rodríguez-Zamora, C. Cordero-Silis, J. Fabila, J. Luque-Ceballos, F Buendía, A. Heredia-Barbero, I. Garzón, Interaction Mechanisms and Interface Configuration of Cysteine Adsorbed on Gold, Silver, and Copper Nanoparticles, Langmuir, April 2022,
  • P. Rodríguez-Zamora, C. Cordero-Silis, G. Garza-Ramos, B. Angeles-Salazar, J. Fabila, F. Buendía, O. Paz-Borbón, G. Díaz, I.L. Garzón, Effect of Metal Core on Chiroptical Activity of L- and D-Cysteine Protected Nanoparticles, Small, January 2021,
  • Rodriguez-Zamora, P; Cordero-Silis, CA; Garza-Ramos, GR; et al., Effect of the Metal–Ligand Interface on the Chiroptical Activity of Cysteine‐Protected Nanoparticles, Small, March 2021, DOI: 10.1002/smll.202004288,

Former Students

  • Guillermo Aldair Sanchez Raudry, Caracterización estructural y quiróptica de nanopartículas de oro protegidas por penicilamina, 2025-11-14, Licenciatura
  • Cedric Alexander Cordero Silis, Efecto del Núcleo Metálico en la Actividad Quiróptica de Nanopartículas Protegidas con Cisteína, 2020-01-31, Licenciatura
  • Benjamin Salazar Angeles , Estudio experimental de la adsorción de L- y D-cisteína en nanopartículas de oro por espectroscopía Raman , 2019-08-26, Licenciatura
  • Po-An Chen , Investigation of protein-protein interactions involving retinoblastoma binding protein 6 using immunoprecipitation and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy , 0019-03-26, Maestría

Awards

  • Popular Advance, Distinción, 2025
  • Premio Mujeres en la Ciencia L’Oréal–UNESCO-AMC-CONALMEX 2020, Premio, 2020
  • Juan Manuel Lozano Mejía, Medalla, 2009